Lynn Pruett has published a novel and numerous stories, essays, and articles. She has taught fiction and CNF workshops at North Carolina State, University of Alabama, University of Kentucky, Vanderbilt University, the Murray State MFA program, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy, and she has earned fellowships to Yaddo and Squaw Valley.

Kathryn Locey is professor of English at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in such places as the History Will Be Kind anthology, the Copperfield Review, Able Muse, Paper Nautilus, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Lorraine M. López, Gertrude Conaway Chair, teaches in the MFA program and latino and latina studies program at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of seven books of fiction and editor of three essay collections. Her most recent publication is Postcards from the Gerund State: Stories.